Squinting at Starmer

Can Britain's Jews trust the new model Labour party?

The panel at the JC event on the Labour party and Britain’s Jewish community. L/R: Josh Simons, Louise Ellman, Jake Wallis Simons, Mike Katz and me

With Sir Keir Starmer’s “reformed” Labour party widely expected to win Britain’s general election on July 4, I took part in a Jewish Chronicle panel in London last week to discuss what a Labour government might mean for Britain’s beleaguered and anxious Jewish community.

Other members of the panel were Mike Katz, head of the Jewish Labour Movement; former Liverpool MP Dame Louise Ellman, who was hounded out of the Labour party under its hard-left, antisemite-indulging leader Jeremy Corbyn but rejoined under Starmer; and Josh Simons, head of the think-tank Labour Together. In the chair was the JC’s editor, Jake Wallis Simons.

You can watch the discussion by clicking below.

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My most recent exclusive post for my premium subscribers argues that the anti-Israel student mobs threaten not just the Jews but America and civilisation itself. This is how the piece begins:

The campus crucible of Islamic holy war

Events at Columbia university and on other American campuses have left many people open-mouthed in shock and horror. Overnight last night, a mob stormed Columbia’s Hamilton Hall. Masked men dressed in black used hammers and other tools to break in through the windows, barricading entry to the building with tables, chairs and a human chain. They hung a banner reading “Intifada” and screamed “Settlers, settlers, go back home, Palestine is ours alone”. There were reports that one campus worker was taken hostage.

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